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Kosovo became (especially during the 19th century) the Jerusalem of the Serbs. Forced to accept the position of vassals to the Turks, Serb despots continued to rule a diminished state of Raška, at first from Belgrade and then from Smederevo. Serbian resistance did not end until the fall of Smederevo in 1459.
In 1882 Serbia established a state flag consisting of the red-blue-white tricolour with the royal Serbian coat of arms. The arms showed a red shield bearing a white cross with a Cyrillic C in each corner—the letters popularly thought to mean, “Samo sloga Srbina spasava” (“Only unity will save the Serbs”).
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Serbia used the red, blue and white tricolor as a national flag continuously from 1835 until 1918, when Serbia ceased to be a sovereign state after it joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later known as Yugoslavia, the tricolor was a used as a Serbian civil flag, from 1918 to 1945.
Flag Date Use Description 1835–1882 Principality of Serbia: State flag (top): horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and white, with coat of arms at the center Civil flag (bottom): horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and white 1882–1918 Kingdom of Serbia
DateUseDescription1995–1998Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1992–1995Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1991Flag of SAO Krajina, SAO Western ...Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1943–1945Flag of Communist Serbian PartisansHorizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...Jul 28, 2020 · By U.S. Embassy in Belgrade. 4 MINUTE READ. July 28, 2020. On this day (July 28th) in 1918, upon the advice of his good friend Mihajlo Pupin, President Woodrow Wilson gave the order to fly the flag of Serbia over the White House.
Jan 1, 2020 · Serbian Ambassador Mihailovic sends detailed report to the Serbian MFA on the Serbian Day in Washington, including the description of the Serbian flag being raised above the White House. The United States of America officially celebrated July 28, 1918 as “Serbia Day.”
2 days ago · Serbia, country in the west-central Balkans. For most of the 20th century, it was a part of Yugoslavia. The capital of Serbia is Belgrade, a cosmopolitan city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad, a cultural and educational center, lies upstream on the Danube.
